What are you, a weirdo?

[RetroRage]

I love ketchup but hate tomatoes.

I love pickles but hate cucumbers.

I work outside for a living but hate to work outside when I'm home.

I have always been praised for my hard work and dedication at every job I've ever had,  But I'm a lazy person outside of work.

My whole life I have been told how nice I am and friendly.  But yet I have NO friends.  No one that I actually hang out with anyway.  I have a few guys at work I consider friends but we don't really hang out outside of work.

Sounds an awful lot like me.

Is it weird that i consider you guys better friends than any of my "real life" friends?  I've had a group of friends I'd consider to my best friends for more than 10 years, except we haven't really been close or kept in touch much for the past few.  I guess that comes with getting older, but still...ive grown out of several interests that they're still heavy into, like smoking pot and pro-wrestling.  They look at me like i "quit" doing that stuff.  I don't look at it that way, i just see it how that's something i used to do and now i do something else.  I'm not satisfied with the same interest for more than a few years (game collecting being an exception) so i see myself as a chameleon in that regard, always changing my colors.  Anyways, i much more look forward to checking rfgen than hanging out with my "close friends", simply because i feel like there's nothing to talk about with them.

Also, i have tourettes.  Not coprolalia (the swearing tourettes) but i have head/neck twitches and arm/leg twitches, including a weird thing where i have to grunt (as silently as possible, some people think I'm farting lol) When I'm relaxed i can keep it under control for the most part, but its pretty embarrassing when I'm having a stressful day when it really starts to show itself, especially around co-workers and family members.  Its no doubt had an impact on my social life, but  surprisingly I've kept a fiance for 7 years.  Regardless, if that's not weird, i couldn't tell you what is.

[RetroRage]

Ok so here we go. Its just random silliness at the work place. Most of the stuff is inside jokes but you will still get a kick out of it. You will clearly see I work in a laid back place. Oh and a forewarning some of the stuff may be pretty hardcore.

OK lets start with the bathroom. (Employee bathroom of course)

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Above the urinal out of pure randomness we have a Elvis poster showing all his record labels that he made. Sadly every time I piss I learn a little more about Elvis. Like today I learned that he only had three labels showing his entire body. Weird facts that only I would know.

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Next to the toilet we have a adhesive floor decoration meant to be displayed in the customer waiting area. Its just a picture of mud, thats it. But when placed in front of a toilet we see it appears to be something else than mud.

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GM engineers really out did themselves with this particular part. Its a transmission bell housing plug. Yeah you be the judge of what it really resembles. Sorry for the blur.

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You never know what time is fun time. With a Viagra clock you know that theres no time to dick around.

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On the lid of my toolbox I have written Bonobo Monkey. Nobody gets it. Do some research yourself and see what they like to do with their time. I envy them.

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In front of our toilet is a new toilet seat that isn't being used. Still in the plastic wrapping. I always wondered what it would be like if a toilet seat was a living creature. If you can read whats on it you'll get a good laugh.

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OK a shoe in our freezer filled with ice. Need I say more...

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This one may be hard to see. But its a large poster filled with car and customer stereotypes. Its posted on our fridge in the storage room. It shows a picture of a particular vehicle and the stereotype of the person driving that vehicle. You probably wouldn't get any of these jokes as they pertain more to employees. For example we have a picture of a Chrysler 300 (Or Dodge Charger, their the same vehicle) and the joke is every time we see that customer pull up we automatically assume they have a clunking noise complaint from the front of their vehicle. As pretty much every Chrysler product has a poorly built suspension.

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Another picture on the fridge is a warning sign on some Ford drive-shafts. Its so goofy as it shows a person getting tangled in the spinning shaft. I added a smiley face to make it funny.

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Ewww! So this is a Subway sub thats been hanging in the rafters of our storage room for over two years now. Its in a plastic bag. Its pretty nasty.     

 

Where do you work?  I worked at Firestone for about two years as a General Service Tech.  I had ASEs in brakes and Steering/Suspension.  Unfortunately, i hated the business structure and my boss really sucked the fun out of working on cars, so i bailed out of there.  But, working in that shop with the guys i worked with was the most fun I've ever had at any job.  We did so much of the same stuff you do, like drawing on the toilets, the walls, singing and shouting nonsense and laughing hysterically about inside jokes....damn i miss my boys.

[Techie413]

Interesting idea for a thread.

When I think about something stupid I've done in the past, I start to hum and fairly loud.

I talk to myself all the time - mostly during decision-making.  It's my self Q&A session.

I'm not allergic to anything, so I will try any food once.  The only thing I ever refused to eat was dog while stationed in Korea.  I know how they soften the meat, and it's sickening.  I want to try fried tarantula.

I kick ass at karaoke but, like Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20, I hate my own voice.

I want a pet monkey.  Well that's probably a lot of us.

[Zagnorch]

I celebrate St. Patty's in a weird way: with Bailey's Irish Cream poured over Lucky Charms cereal.

Now, that's magically delicious.

[bombatomba]

I...  No wait, I have...  I like to...  Sometimes on...  I often dream...

Crap.   I can't think of anything.  Oh, wait!  I like PC games!  Right?  Any good?

[Sauza12]

I constantly tap out guitar scales with my left hand unless I'm doing something with that hand.  I mean all the time.  Sometimes I'm tapping my fingers on my knee.  Sometimes it's on the roof of my car while I'm driving with my arm out the window.  Sometimes it's just on the palm of my hand.  It's like I have a mild case of palsy.

[bombatomba]

I constantly tap out guitar scales with my left hand unless I'm doing something with that hand.  I mean all the time.  Sometimes I'm tapping my fingers on my knee.  Sometimes it's on the roof of my car while I'm driving with my arm out the window.  Sometimes it's just on the palm of my hand.  It's like I have a mild case of palsy.

That's not so bad.  I used to work with a guy who would suddenly do record scratches when people walked by him.  I best part is he had a unique one for every person in the building (even the owner).  He was also really good at it too.

[Crazy_Opossum]

Well, I chew my toenails, I never had a dream where I remain human/or survive... I have 2 Opossums and 1 Raccoon as pets, even though its not weird but I am obsessed with Surreal/trippy artwork.

I'm a furry and go to cons with an artist's booth. I never played 95% of my games and rarely play video games and yet I collect. Never watched a movie on DVD only CED, Betamax, VHS, LaserDisc, and BluRay.

I have a habit of chewing on my shirt when I'm frustrated.

and well........... that's my weirdness, I thought I was weirder and could have a longer post, but I guess not. bleh

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Well, I chew my toenails, I never had a dream where I remain human/or survive... I have 2 Opossums and 1 Raccoon as pets, even though its not weird but I am obsessed with Surreal/trippy artwork.

I'm a furry and go to cons with an artist's booth. I never played 95% of my games and rarely play video games and yet I collect. Never watched a movie on DVD only CED, Betamax, VHS, LaserDisc, and BluRay.

I have a habit of chewing on my shirt when I'm frustrated.

and well........... that's my weirdness, I thought I was weirder and could have a longer post, but I guess not. bleh

Odd enough I reckon.

[Zagnorch]

NOTE: please refer to http://www.rfgeneration.c...m/index.php?topic=11649.0 before reading this entry, thanks.

If trying to save America's youth from the morally debilitating effects of video games makes me weird, then I proudly proclaim myself the weirdest weirdo of all.

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[Zagnorch]

Here are a few revelations of weirdness you might find downright shocking:

- I have watched, at most, five episodes of The Simpsons my whole life. And damned if I can remember what any of them were about.

- I have never read any of the Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter books, nor have I watched any of the movies. It's due mainly to a complete lack of interest.

[techwizard]

Here are a few revelations of weirdness you might find downright shocking:

- I have watched, at most, five episodes of The Simpsons my whole life. And damned if I can remember what any of them were about.

- I have never read any of the Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter books, nor have I watched any of the movies. It's due mainly to a complete lack of interest.

you're dead to me.

...

just kidding but you have no interest in 2 of the things i love...madness to me. i've read and seen every harry potter book/movie, but i'm not a big fan of them. LotR is a different story entirely, oh boy. my favourite book and movies of all time.

[Zagnorch]

you're dead to me.

...

just kidding but you have no interest in 2 of the things i love...madness to me. i've read and seen every harry potter book/movie, but i'm not a big fan of them. LotR is a different story entirely, oh boy. my favourite book and movies of all time.

Sorry to disappoint, but I simply don't have any interest in reading them.

I'm not proud of this... nor am I particularly ashamed. I simply don't care.

However, I do care about messing with people. And here's a little head-game I played on a coworker the other day.

I asked her, "Do you know what I like?"

"No, what?"

"Do you know what I really, REALLY like?"

"No, tell me!"

"Do you? Do you know? Huh?"

"GODDAMMIT, WILL YOU TELL ME ALREADY?!"

"I like to ask people if they know what I like." 

[Crazy_Opossum]

We got a get well soon card and a balloon for a Dead seagull (was hit by a car that has been there for over a year)
we named it Rupert.





yeah... we're just messed up :3

[Zagnorch]

I dunno if this makes me weird, or mildly technophobic, but I'll never interact with voice-response technology if I can help it. Giving verbal responses to anything other than an actual human being just creeps me out. I'll encounter this some times when I'm calling customer service for something-or-other, and I'll stay silent and not respond at all to Lady HAL's questions until I'm connected to a living, breathing operator... based in India.

Another tech advance that bothers me are bluetooth earpieces. I get the douche chills whenever I see someone using one; I imagine that they're schizophrenics off their meds, talking to the voices in their heads.

Oh, and one last thing: